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Anyone Republican interested in a proposal by Unity08 for a bipartisan ticket should consider the disaster that befell the country when the GOP did nominate a bipartisan presidential ticket.  In 1864, President Lincon's running mate was a Democrat, Tennessee's Andrew Johnson.  Though anti-Confederate, Johnson proved to be a racist buffoon and an alcoholic and a true Democrat.  Thanks to John Wilkes Booth, choosing Andrew Johnson was the biggest mistake of Abraham Lincoln's life. On this day in 1868, Republicans began the Senate trial of impeached President Andrew Johnson.  Among the seven U.S. Representatives serving as impeachment managers were anti-slavery crusader...

President Lincoln - 1862 Copyright Albert Kaplan 1983 (click on image for the full daguerreotype plate) In 1977 Albert Kaplan purchased the daguerreotype receipted as "Portrait of a Young Man" from an art gallery in New York. "When I first saw it I thought that there were similarities between the handsome, aristocratic, and tastefully groomed young man of the daguerreotype, and my mental image of President Lincoln."Over the years Kaplan researched and assembled materials which cast light on the physical man, Lincoln. Kaplan believed that the best qualified people to analyze the image, and the assembled materials, to consider...